This multi-component activity develops listening skills as well as prompts discussions on queer life in urban spaces in East and West Germany.
Category: Feminist Politics
Queer Berlin Maps
This multi-component, multi-week activity invites students to consider queer public spaces in Weimar-era Berlin.
Stokowski, Untenrum frei, 2018
This discussion looks at the current state of feminism in Germany through a recent bestseller.
Herrmann, So ist die neue Frau, 1929
Discuss the different roles of women, and the political and social values attributed to them, through this 1920s novel.
Anonymous, “Eros vor Gericht”, 1924
Discuss ideas of morality and reform in sexual legislation post-WWI and the Industrial Revolution.
Fleißer, Ein Pfund Orangen, 1929
Through short stories, this lesson discusses love and relationships and an unadorned literary style affiliated with Neue Sachlichkeit.
Mann, “Frau und Buch,” 1930
Through this article written in Fraktur, discuss the situation of women writers as autonomous artistic subjects in the early 20th century.
Kaus, “Die Frau in der modernen Literatur,” 1929
Engage with Kaus’ critical overview of historical attitude toward and expectations of writing and reading women as frivolous, vapid, and even dangerous.
Rühle-Gerstel, “Zurück zur guten alten Zeit?” 1933
Explore Rühle-Gerstel’s resumé of the past, present, and future of the feminist movement during the Weimar Republic.
Fleißer, “Jahrhundert – gedrittelt,” 1933
A discussion on the first third of the 20th century from the perspective of women’s rights and the feminist movement in Germany.